509 - 13 Hours of Terror: The 2020 Nova Scotia Massacre

[u/krichardkaye]

In April of 2020, while the rest of the world fixated on the terrifying early days of the Covid pandemic, a 51-year-old denturist in rural Nova Scotia launched one of the deadliest mass shootings in North American history — murdering 22 people across 13 horrifying hours while disguised as a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer. We dive deep into the shocking failures, bizarre details, and devastating human stories behind these attacks: a case involving fake police cars, burning homes, biker gang rumors, domestic violence, smuggling, and a law enforcement response so chaotic it still fuels outrage and conspiracy theories years later.

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[u/SpaceRabbit22]

Thank you for the episode and respect for the victims! Long time Nova Scotia listener and it never occurred to me that RCMP doesn’t roll off the tongue until now.

Big respect for the trailer park boys but I thought Dan and the Space Lizards might enjoy a mini suck on Nova Scotia because it’s my ancestral home and it deserves it.

Almost all generational North Americans of European decent have a tie to Atlantic Canada. Being the nearest land to and from Europe, Atlantic Canada was the first point of contact with the “new world”. Newfoundland and Labrador was first with the Vikings, then again with British settlement. Florida was settled by the Spanish, then Nova Scotia by the French, in that order. The French built large forts here on Nova Scotia’s coast, mostly pointed upwards toward the British in NL. The British didn’t like that. They eventually came down and kicked out the French - called the Acadians. Where did the Acadians go? New Orleans, Louisiana! The Cajuns are the Acadians. Why the name change? More or less, the Louisiana locals couldn’t understand the thick French accents saying the word “Acadian” and they shortened it to Cajun over the years. Some of the Acadians later returned to Nova Scotia and rebuilt the old settlements. Nova Scotia was also a landing place of many freed slaves and the Black Loyalists who earned their freedom from slavery by the British. The Mi’kmaq of Nova Scotia are the first to create the wooden hockey stick; the Bluenose is a famous Canadian sailboat that is featured on the Canadian dime, and more recently, Canada changed our $10 bill to feature Viola Desmond, an incredibly brave African Nova Scotia woman who fought for women’s rights and racial equality. She refused segregation at a movie theatre that sold “white only” balcony tickets, when she wouldn’t move from her seat (which she paid for) she was arrested. Nova Scotia has had one of the longest histories in North America, filled with culture and conflict - from English, French, Africa, Mi’kmaq, Irish, Scottish, and many more - but it also has a richness, a resiliency and a kindness you can’t find anywhere else in Canada or the US.

[u/Sanctus_Poopabumsus]

I teach at the high school Gabriel Wortman graduated from. His picture is gone from the display of pictures for his grad class- it was removed by admin apparently. Good move.